Alert: Gauff reaches US Open final
Coco Gauff won against Karolina Muchova 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday night and will play the winner of the match between American Madison Keys, the No 17 seed, and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, in the final
American Coco Gauff, the No 6 seed, won against No 10 seed Karolina Muchova 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the final of the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Thursday night.
Gauff, ranked No 6, will play the winner of the match between American Madison Keys, the No 17 seed, and Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, the second seed, next.
Earlier in the tournament, the 19-year-old American defeated German qualifier Laura Siegemund (3-6, 6-2, 6-4), Russian Mirra Andreeva (6-3, 6-2), Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 32 seed (3-6, 6-3, 6-0), Dane wildcard Caroline Wozniacki (6-3, 3-6, 6-1) and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 20 seed (6-0, 6-2).
Muchova, ranked No 10, won against Australian wildcard Storm Hunter (6-4, 6-0), Pole Magdalena Frech (6-3, 6-3), American Taylor Townsend (7-6, 6-3), Chinese Xinyu Wang (6-3, 5-7, 6-1) and Romanian Sorana Cirstea, the No 30 seed (6-0, 6-3) in the previous rounds of the Flushing Meadow tournament.
New York (Grand Slam), other semi-final result (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 44.700.000):
- Madison Keys vs. Aryna Sabalenka
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